Buzz Aldrin didn’t ‘admit’ he never went to the Moon
A clip from a 2015 interview has been liked more than 40,000 times on Instagram. Read
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Social media
Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
Fake appeal to identify woman in ‘coma’ circulating on Facebook
A social media post falsely claims an unidentified young woman was “mugged, stabbed and left for dead on the roadside”. Read
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Fake post about child ‘missing’ after baseball practice circulating online
A post about an allegedly missing child named Tyler Miller in Lincoln has been shared on social media using a picture of an Australian girl. Read
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A 7pm sunset in the UK is more than 39 days away
The sun will set after 7pm when the clocks go forward on 26 March. Read
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‘Cor ona virus’ doesn’t mean ‘heart attack virus’ in Latin
A screenshot from Google Translate appears to show the translation, but this isn’t the meaning of the words in Latin. Read
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The World Economic Forum has not called for paedophilia to be decriminalised
Quotes attributed to the WEF and its co-founder Klaus Schwab circulating on Facebook have been denied by a WEF spokesperson. Read
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UN soldiers are not forcing the unvaccinated into camps
The claim is being made on Facebook but there is no evidence it is happening. Read
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Cat injured in Middlesbrough is really a viral 2018 picture from California
A Facebook post falsely claims the cat was hurt and picked up earlier this year. Read
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Health
Covid death rates were not a ‘lie’
While different measures of death rates have their own strengths and limitations, they all broadly concur that, in the UK, sadly, around 200,000 people have died of Covid-19. Read
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Sodium bicarbonate is not ‘lethal’ to all cancers
because there’s no evidence sodium bicarbonate can be used to cure cancer. Some studies have looked at its use in reducing tumour pH levels, but none have suggested it could be used to treat cancer. Read
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